Air Force Reserve Command is looking to hire 1,600 airmen by September to be individual mobilization augmentees. “Recent attrition rates and the rise of new positions have created a great need to grow the [IMA] program,” command officials stated in a release June 18. “We have openings all over the world and in the new Global Strike, Cyber, and Africa Commands,” said Maj. Chuck Pittman, director of personnel for AFRC’s readiness management group. The IMA program gives airmen the flexibility to choose where they serve and when. It also assigns them to active component units, either Air Force or joint. Further, these airmen have the opportunity to participate in emerging, cutting-edge missions, such as cyber. Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, AFRC boss, said the IMA program helps the command “to maintain the right people with the right skill sets in the right places.”
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…